The German Empire or the Imperial State of Germany, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Kaiserreich, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.. It was founded on 18 …

The German Empire, 1871–1914. The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France were vanquished in short, decisive conflicts. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the …

Germany from 1939 was more or less a shadow of the German Empire from 1914. When World War One broke out, the German Empire was the most powerful state from Europe. Its land army was the best in the World and its Navy was on the second-place, surpassed by the Royal Navy.

The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of Imperial Germany.Unified in the early 1870s, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck.Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but Bismarck resisted pressure …

The territorial changes of Germany include all changes in the borders and territory of Germany from its formation in 1871 to the present. Modern Germany was formed in 1871 when Otto von Bismarck unified most of the German states, with the notable exception of Austria, into the German Empire. After the First World War, Germany lost about 10% of its territory to its …

Germany came to dominate all the major Continental markets except France. The focus of national wealth as well as population shifted to the urban industrial sector by 1900. Only 40 percent of Germans lived in rural areas by 1910, a drop from 67 percent at the birth of the empire.

These were colonies of the Habsburg monarchy, part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation realm until 1804, Austrian Empire after 1804, Austria-Hungary from 1867 to the end of World War I. Banquibazar, 1719-1723 Cabelon, 1744-1750 Delagoa Bay, 1777-1781 Nicobar islands, 1778–1783 North Borneo, 1878-1881 Tientsin concession, 1901–1917

This is a list of wars involving Germany including its predecessor states and the modern German state since its unification in 1871: . Frankish Kingdom (481–843); East Francia (843–962); Kingdom of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806); State of the Teutonic Order (1224–1525); Duchy of Prussia (1525–1701); Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1871) ...

Bismarck’s successors rapidly abandoned his foreign policy. The Reinsurance Treaty of 1887 with Russia was dropped, leaving Germany more firmly tied to the Dual Monarchy and Russia free to conclude an alliance with France in 1894. Within four years Friedrich von Holstein, a councillor in the political division of the foreign office, had weakened Germany’s influence in the Balkans …